Can You Fly

Infobox Album |
Name = Can You Fly
Type = Album
Artist = Freedy Johnston


Released = April 14, 1992
Recorded = Jan. 1991-Dec. 1991
Genre = Alternative
Length = 49:35
Label = Bar/None Records
Producer = Graham Maby, Knut Bohn
Reviews =
* Robert Christgau (A+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=freedy+johnston link]
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wgud6joh71r0 link]
*"Fast Folk" (favorable) Allen, Jim, [http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/fast_folk/FFFF609.pdf "The Ten Best Albums of 1992"] , "Fast Folk Musical Magazine", 6:9-10, (February 1993) p.12-13]
Last album = "The Trouble Tree"
(1990)
This album = "Can You Fly"
(1992)
Next album = "This Perfect World"
(1994)

"Can You Fly" is singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston's 1992 album. Most critics consider it Johnston's best work. Robert Christgau even called it "a perfect album."

In order to finance the recording of the album, Johnston sold off some farmland that he inherited from his grandfather. This decision is referenced in the opening lines of the leadoff track, "Trying to Tell You I Don't Know."

The song "California Thing" appeared on the soundtrack of the film "Heavy", starring Liv Tyler and Deborah Harry.

Track listing

#"Trying to Tell You I Don't Know"
#"In the New Sunshine"
#"Tearing Down This Place"
#"Remember Me"
#"Wheels"
#"The Lucky One"
#"Can You Fly"
#"Responsible"
#"The Mortician's Daughter"
#"Sincere"
#"Down in Love"
#"California Thing"
#"We Will Shine"

References